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Felix Römer is a historian at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, currently holding a Heisenberg Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He has been affiliated with the Philosophische Fakultät since 2019, previously serving as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (research assistant) and Lehrstuhlvertreter (chair representative) for Social and Economic History. His research focuses on post-1945 Western European history and German history before 1945, particularly economic inequality knowledge in Britain and West Germany, cultural and violence history of the Nazi state, and military history of WWII and the Wehrmacht.
Römer holds a Habilitation (2021) from Humboldt-Universität, where he was also recognized for his work on Economic Inequality and Social Justice. He received his PhD in 2007 from Christian Albrechts-Universität Kiel and studied Modern and Ancient German History, Modern European Literature, and Ancient History at universities in Kiel and Lyon (1999-2003). His
- Carl Erdmann Prize (2023) from the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
- Heisenberg Fellowship (2022) from DFG
His recent publications, such as Inequality Knowledge (2023) and Social Justice after the 20th Century (2025), explore
- statistical epistemology of economic inequality
- post-war welfare state transformations
- political legitimization of neoliberal policies
- historical roots of poverty and wealth narratives
